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Historically Speaking

Digging through the archives to find yesterday's strongest defenses of free speech and open discourse, occasionally from today's opponents of liberalism.
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SCOTUS 1927: Whitney v. California
An excerpt from Justice Louis Brandeis' concurring opinion.
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WaPo 1977: The ACLU and Free Speech
"Freedom of expression, if it is to have any meaning at all, cannot be made dependent on the intellectual or emotional sympathy of the majority."
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Edward R. Murrow 1954: A Report on Senator Joseph R. McCarthy
"We cannot defend freedom abroad by deserting it at home."
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NYT 1986: Smoking, Smoke and Free Speech
"The remedy is that anyone who regards [R.J. Reynolds'] arguments as false, which we do, remains equally free to say so."
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Noam Chomsky 1980: Some Elementary Comments on The Rights of Freedom of Expression
"[I]t is precisely in the case of horrendous ideas that the right of free expression must be most vigorously defended."
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WaPo 1960: Speaking Unfrankly
"For if men spoke only with the tongues of angels, the diversity of what they said would be diminished; and the discourse through which the democratic…
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ACLU 1994: Free Speech Is Worth The Cost
"The price we pay for the right to express ourselves is the burden of listening to others whose views we hate."
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